XtraTime Web Desk: Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli is going through the form of his life as he already crossed 500-run mark in this test series against England, beside that he reached another milestone today as he became the first Indian to score 4000 runs as captain. In his captaincy period so far he has scored 16 centuries and nine half-centuries and his best score is 243.
A couple of day’s back on Friday he touched another feat when he got past 6000 runs in Test cricket. While doing so he has outran legendary Sachin Tendulkar and Sir Vivian Richards as he took one less innings to reach this feat.
He has bypassed Tendulkar but Sunil Gavaskar remains the fastest Indian batsman to the milestone, taking just 117 innings in 65 Tests. Kohli is playing his 119th innings in his 70th Test match, and 39th as captain.
After his second century of the series put India in command of the third Test against England at Trent Bridge, Kohli was out for 103, leaving him with a career aggregate of 5,994 Test runs at 54.49 from 118 innings.
The overall mark for the fastest man to 6,000 belongs to Sir Donald Bradman, who reached the Test runs mileston in a preposterous 68 innings. Earlier this year, then Australia captain Steve Smith levelled Sir Garfield Sobers in second place on the list (111 innings).